You Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Foot (zú) 蹈 Kangxi stroke count: 17 Page 1231, Entry 03 Ancient form. Pronounced dao (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Dictionary of Explanations of Characters): To tread. Guangya (Explanatory Encyclopedia): To walk upon. Shimingshi (Explanation of Names): To follow a path. Using the feet to tread upon something is like walking on a road. Book of Rites (Liji), Record of Music (Yueji): Thus, one does not realize their hands are dancing and their feet are stamping. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Twenty-first Year of Duke Ai: To cause me to tread the high path. Commentary: To tread the high path is like going on a long journey. Also used as a variant of the character for mourn (dao). Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes (Xiaoya): The Lord on High is very restless. Commentary: To move. Annotations: Read the character for tread as the character for mourn. Explanatory Notes: For the character for tread, Zheng read it as the character for mourn. It means to be ill.